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Tonight's South Bay Selenium Meetup features a presentation from Greg Wester (@gwestr) titled "Selenium at Salesforce Scale". Salesforce has an inventory of more than 100,000 Selenium tests and Greg will discuss how they run them at scale, as well as provide practical advice on how to architect test harnesses for success. The meetup begins at 6:30 and will be held at LinkedIn (2025 Stierlin [...]

Front End Ops Conf 2014, a new conference dedicated to front end operations, opened for business today. The conference is focused on the emerging discipline of front end operations and Sauce Labs is helping to organize and sponsor the event, slated for April 24-25, 2014 at the Terra Gallery in San Francisco. Front End Ops Conf features a great line up of speakers who are fanatical about [...]

1/14/2014 Update: We'll be posting a link to the recorded webinar in several days. We're teaming up with the Gilt Groupe for our next online workshop! Join us on Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 at 11:00am PST to learn about how Gilt uses Appium to automate their mobile testing. Today, mobile purchases make up more than 40% of Gilt's sales, and the mobile e-commerce market continues to rage [...]

Missed last week’s Appium meetup? Check out Jonathan’s slides that highlight the history of Appium and its upcoming roadmap! Keep an eye on the Appium meetup page to hear about upcoming Appium meetups.

Tomorrow is the second Appium meetup, 12/11/13 at 6:30PM! Once again, Lookout will be hosting the meetup and providing drinks and Sauce will be providing pizza. Our very own Jonathan Lipps, chief architect of Appium, will be giving a talk on the future of Appium and detail upcoming API changes and roadmap. Then Dan Doveralba will be covering tips and tricks for Appium that he's discovered over [...]

Last week, we hosted an intro to parallel testing on Sauce with Python and Selenium. You can find the slides here. We used the following scripts in the workshop: Sauce helper: ''' This library is not supported by Sauce Labs. It merely servers as an example on send data to the Sauce Labs API. ''' import requests import json import time # Can be used to time different selenium commands def [...]

Now that you’ve gained an hour of sleep how are you going to get the most out of that new-found time? We can think of several slick events happening this month and there’s still plenty of time to join in. Tonight is Sauce’s 2nd mobile testing robot hackathon. Come build your own Tapster robot and learn how to use it to test your iOS or Android mobile apps. The hackathon will be held at GitHub/SF [...]